Akenfield (1974)

Review: Akenfield (1974)

Director: Peter Hall

Cast: Stanley Baxter, Ronald Blythe, Ethel Branton, Lyn Brooks, Garrow Shand,

Stanley Baxter
Stanley Baxter
Ronald Blythe
Ronald Blythe
Ethel Branton
Ethel Branton
Lyn Brooks
Lyn Brooks
Garrow Shand
Garrow Shand

Plot: As a young man, Tom, prepares to leave the Suffolk village of his birth, voices and experiences from his family's past crowd in on his mind, weaving a poetic tapestry of the love of home and the longing to get away from it.

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New releases from the BFI, 2016: Part 2

New releases from the BFI, 2016: Part 2

Two new BFI releases, Peter Hall’s Akenfield (1974) and Andrew Grieve’s On the Black Hill (1988), view the 20th Century through the relationships of people in rural Britain to the land, evoking physical hardship and timeless mystical […]

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